U. S. Armored Cruiser South Dakota
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Series 9535 U. S. Armored Cruiser "South Dakota" Built at san Francisco by Union Iron Wks. 502 feet long by 69 feet 6 1/2 inches wide. Mean draft 24 feet 1 inch. Displacement 13,680 tons. Speed 22 knots; horsepower 23,000. Cost $3,750,00. Launched July 21, 1904. Two miltary masts and four funnels. Complement of 41 officers and 791 men. MaIN Batery - four 8-in B. L. R. guns in turrets, also fourteen 6-in, R. F. in broadsides. Secondary battery - eighteen 3-in, R. f., twelve 3-lb. S. A., tow 1-lb, R. F., two 3-in. F., four 30 caliber A, and two 30 caliber M. with two 18-in, submergeeed torpedo tubes |
